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It's easy enough to limit for a local user posting. I guess the tricky part is what if this comes in through federation from an instance that doesn't support limiting. Probably just refuse the CREATE request with an appropriate error code (400?) and message (the "try again later one") and hope the user's home instance will report that back to the user.
Talked about this with the admins and the suggestion is to use some kind of automod, but implementing something like that is a little beyond my ability.
Ah - I can see why they'd prefer an automod (they'd not have to worry about configuring or changing the server software in that case).
Unfortunately, as far I can tell, none of the existing automods out there support deleting posts by a rate limit. It's not impossible to add this functionality, but it'd take a bit of work and time from a dev.
For example, I think for lemmymodbot one can modify the User Processor at https://github.com/noenfugler/LemmyModBot/blob/master/lemmymodbot/processors/user_processor.py to accomplish this.
Under line 8, add this line to create a user/seen hash
user_post_seen_hash = {}
and replace the entire execute function with something like this,
if content.actor_id in self.user_post_seen_hash:
if int(datetime.now().timestamp * 1000) - int(user_post_seen_hash[content.actor_id].timestamp * 1000) <= 300 * 1000:
handle.remove_thing("Posting too frequently, take a break")
self.user_post_seen_hash[content.actor_id] = datetime.now()
(Oh, and at the top of the file, also add above the first line,
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
)
But for lemmy.world (even if just looking at /m/politics) it would likely OOM from the in-memory hash due to the volume of users, so it'd need to be extended leverage the database for the lookup.
Something similar could be implemented on top of threativore, I think around this line might be the easiest place to implement the check of the username/timestamp, https://github.com/db0/threativore/blob/main/threativore/threativore.py#L285
Edit: Forgot to add, all the above code changes are completely untested by me, use at your own risk, etc.